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Yahoo
14-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Bob Dylan setlist 2025: What he sang at Willie Nelson's Outlaw tour launch in Phoenix
Bob Dylan was full of surprises when he brought his band to Phoenix on Tuesday, May 13, as part of Willie Nelson's Outlaw Music Festival 2025 at Talking Stick Resort Amphitheatre. Most recent setlists have been focused on his latest album, 2020's 'Rough and Rowdy Ways,' which made the rounds of year-end critics' lists while being singled out as album of the year by Ultimate Classic Rock, Uncut and Mojo. But this was another side of Bob Dylan, complete with two songs early in the set from the criminally underrated "Another Side of Bob Dylan." He's been doing "It Ain't Me Babe" on the regular, but this set also featured "To Ramona" for the first time since 2017. He also did "Forgetful Heart" from "Together Through Life" for the first time since 2015 and "Mr. Tambourine Man" for the first time since 2010 as well as two songs from "John Wesley Harding" (the set-opening "I'll Be Your Baby Tonight" and "All Along the Watchtower") and "It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry" from "Highway 61 Revisited." He also did covers of "Route 66" (first time since 1986), "I'll Make It All Up To You" (a Jerry Lee Lewis song written by Charlie Rich) and "A Rainy Night in Soho" by the Pogues. Here's what Bob Dylan sang on opening night of the Willie Nelson Outlaw Festival Tour 2025 in Phoenix, according to fans who saw the show, as shared online: "I'll Be Your Baby Tonight" "It Ain't Me Babe" "Forgetful Heart" (first time since 2015) "Axe and the Wind" (George "Wild Child" Butler cover; live debut) "To Ramona" (first time since 2017) "Route 66" (Bobby Troup cover; first time since 1986) "All Along the Watchtower" "I'll Make It All Up To You" (Jerry Lee Lewis cover; live debut) "It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry" "Mr. Tambourine Man" (first time since 2010) "Under the Red Sky" "Scarlet Town" "A Rainy Night in Soho" (Pogues cover; live debut) Ed has covered pop music for The Republic since 2007, reviewing festivals and concerts, interviewing legends, covering the local scene and more. He did the same in Pittsburgh for more than a decade. Follow him on X and Instagram @edmasley and on Facebook as Ed Masley. Email him at 'New way of playing': How one night in Tempe sparked Willie Nelson's outlaw country revolution This article originally appeared on Arizona Republic: Bob Dylan setlist: Outlaw Music Festival 2025 songs
CBS News
17-02-2025
- Entertainment
- CBS News
Timothée Chalamet knew almost nothing about Bob Dylan. Here's how he studied him for "A Complete Unknown."
Timothée Chalamet spent about five years studying Bob Dylan for his Oscar-nominated role in " A Complete Unknown," but he didn't want to imitate the singer for the film. Part of the challenge of playing the enigmatic and reclusive musician for Chalamet, was bringing himself to the role. "Where does my heart and where does my soul fit into this? Can it fit into this, particularly with someone who was so masked," Chalamet said. Preparing to play Bob Dylan Playing the singing and songwriting legend would be a daunting task for any actor, but when Chalamet was offered the role, he was 23 and says he knew very little about Dylan. A lot of people told him not to take it, but Chalamet seems to like a creative challenge. Chalamet's never met Dylan, but because of the COVID pandemic, strikes in Hollywood and other film commitments, the actor was able to do a deep dive into the musician's life. "I give 170% in everything I'm doing, no, 'But,' there. I'm giving it my all. Something like the Dylan project, these aren't watered-down experiences. I'm going Daniel Day-Lewis on all of them," Chalamet said. "I'm not saying in process, but I'm saying a level of commitment." Chalamet, who's 29 now, didn't just need to figure out how to sing like Dylan, he had to learn how to play harmonica and guitar and about 40 Bob Dylan songs — far more than were originally called for in the script. The actor told 60 Minutes that early in his research, he looked Dylan up on YouTube. He found a clip of Dylan performing "It Ain't Me Babe" with Joan Baez, with whom Dylan had a romantic relationship, particularly insightful. Chalamet said he watched the clip at half speed. "That was when I really slowed down, 'cause it's fascinating the way Bob observes her," Chalamet said. "And how he refuses eye contact in that video." Chalamet's version, with Monica Barbaro playing Joan Baez, is one of the songs in "A Complete Unknown," which came out in December. As part of his preparation for "A Complete Unknown," Chalamet watched an interview Dylan did with 60 Minutes correspondent Ed Bradley more than 20 years ago. "It's a feeling you have that you know something about yourself nobody else does. The picture you have in your mind of what you're about will come true. It's kind of a thing you kind of have to keep to your own self because it's a fragile feeling and you put it out there and somebody will kill it, so it's best to keep that all inside," Dylan told Bradley during that interview. Chalamet, who's watched the interview "probably a thousand times," took special note of what Dylan said about self-destiny being fragile. "Especially early on in life, in your career, when you're in your early 20s or late teens," Chalamet said. "If you can find a way to keep it quiet, but also have a lot of confidence, it's the best path, you know?" Making "A Complete Unknown" "A Complete Unknown," set in the early 1960s, follows Dylan's rapid rise from obscurity to stardom. Dylan was 19 when he arrived in New York City from Minnesota. He quickly became an icon in the world of folk music. Poetic and political, his songs spoke to the times and a young generation demanding change. Dylan got his start in New York at a nightclub called Cafe Wha? in Greenwich Village. Chalamet visited the nightclub during production. "And it ain't the same," Chalamet said. Instead of the folk music of Dylan's days, he said they were playing Aerosmith covers and AC/DC. To connect with what might be behind Dylan's mask, Chalamet disconnected from his own life for the two-and-a-half months of filming. He wouldn't use his cellphone or have visitors on set. "I've never approached a character so intensely as Bob, 'cause I have such respect for the material," he said. "And I knew I wouldn't be able to live with myself if I remembered that I was lazy on a day when something went wrong." Chalamet pre-recorded all the Dylan songs he'd sing in the movie. They were supposed to be played back on set during filming. "It always sounded too clean," Chalamet said. "The recording equipment's too clean now, the guitars are too good. And Bob Dylan was drinking two bottles of red wine a day sometimes, smoking 30 packs of cigarettes." Chalamet said he held back on the wine. He decided he wanted to try and sing and play live on set. He did it for the first time in a scene depicting Dylan visiting his terminally ill hero, folk music legend Woody Guthrie, played by Scoot McNairy. Edward Norton is Pete Seeger. Director James Mangold knew Chalamet nailed it on his first take. "There's a moment in that scene right at the last stanza where he holds a note," Mangold said. "That would never have happened if we'd used the playback track." That moment was not in the song originally. "He just did it," Mangold said. Chalamet said he didn't plan it that way. "It would be disingenuous to my, you know, the way I like to act and my approach to stuff," he said. Like Dylan, Chalamet is reluctant to talk about how he does what he does. If there is magic in acting, Chalamet doesn't want to give it all away, joking it's nobody's business. "And otherwise, it might not be as interesting as people think," Chalamet said. "Or it could be a lot more interesting than people think. It might be more interesting than what I'm doing." From being wary of acting to making it his career What Chalamet's done in nearly two dozen films has been plenty interesting. In the "Dune" series, he transformed himself from the privileged son of a duke into a menacing messiah. He's played Laurie in "Little Women," Willy Wonka in "Wonka" and a lovestruck teenager in "Call Me By Your Name." As a child, Chalamet didn't dream of becoming an actor, though he was surrounded by them. He lived in a rent subsidized apartment complex in Manhattan full of artists. It left an impression. "This building truthfully made me scared of acting," Chalamet said. He witnessed firsthand how it could be a tough way to make a living. His mom, Nicole Flender, was a dancer and works with the Actors' Equity Association. His sister, Pauline Chalamet, is an actress, and Timmy, as his friends and family call him, booked occasional acting jobs as a child – though he said he really wanted to be a professional soccer player. His father, French journalist Marc Chalamet, wasn't exactly pushing him to act. Chalamet said his father was wary, thinking the world of acting wasn't the place for a child. "I think my dad was more just, like, 'Be normal,'" Chalamet said. High school was a turning point for Chalamet. He got into LaGuardia High School, a famously competitive public school for the performing arts. "It's a school that champions the arts," Chalamet said. "So there I doubled down." He was cast as the lead in school musicals and developed routines for LaGuardia's talent show as a rapper named Lil' Timmy Tim. Chalamet went to Columbia University for a year, and then some classes at New York University. But he dropped out, wanting to focus on acting full time. "Listen, man, I was struggling. I was struggling. I was struggling with identity and I was struggling with…your sense of self-respect, your sense of drive or where you wanna be pales in comparison to where you are," Chalamet said. "Call Me By Your Name" changed everything. Chalamet was 21 when it came out, around the same age Dylan was when his career started to take off. Chalamet became the youngest person nominated for an Academy Award for best actor in nearly 80 years. Is a Chalamet-Dylan meeting in the cards? Chalamet still hasn't met Dylan, even though "A Complete Unknown" has received eight Oscar nominations, including Chalamet's second best actor nod. "He doesn't seem like he wants to be bothered by, not me, but by everyone in the last 60, 70 years," Chalamet said. Chalamet's not sure what he'd say to Dylan if he ever did meet him. "I would honestly just be like, I would play it super cool, you know? 'Cause I feel like he's probably used to so much hyperbole and praise," Chalamet said. Chalamet told correspondent Anderson Cooper he'd try to "out-Bob" him." Not even mention the movie, maybe talk about the weather.
Arab News
31-01-2025
- Entertainment
- Arab News
REVIEW: Timothée Chalamet dazzles as Bob Dylan in ‘A Complete Unknown'
DUBAI: There's a scene roughly two-thirds of the way through 'A Complete Unknown' when Bob Dylan (played by Timothée Chalamet) and Joan Baez (Monica Barbaro) sing 'It Ain't Me Babe' on stage at the Newport Folk Festival. It's an extraordinary, electrifying performance — one that encapsulates the mesmerizing musical clarity and emotional power of this brilliant yet flawed biopic. For the latest updates, follow us on Instagram @ The opening quarter of James Mangold's film is rich with such moments: a young, carefree Dylan singing 'Song to Woody' for his hero Woody Guthrie; his first encounter with Baez at Gerde's Folk City in 1961; the visible joy of Pete Seeger (played by Edward Norton) as Dylan performs 'The Times They Are A-Changin'' at Newport in 1963; and the rapt attention of Seeger's children as Dylan sings one morning in their family home. These scenes may play footloose and fancy-free with historical fact, but they brim with atmospheric splendor. 'A Complete Unknown' — co-written by Mangold and screenwriter Jay Cocks, and based on Elijah Wald's book 'Dylan Goes Electric!' — follows Dylan from his arrival in Greenwich Village in 1961 to his seismic performance at the Newport Folk Festival in 1965. The latter, replete with a braying crowd and hostile projectiles, acts as the film's explosive finale, as Dylan rejects the straitjacket of traditional acoustic folk in favor of electric experimentation. Chalamet captivates as Dylan, capturing the singer-songwriter's nonchalance and charisma, although the artist himself remains mostly a mystery. Sure, we see his ruffled hair, his quirky mannerisms, and his love of cigarettes, and Chalamet nails his distinctive, raspy, grittily raw voice, but Dylan the man is as doggedly elusive as ever. Outside of the musical set pieces, the songwriting, and a few intimate moments with Baez and his long-suffering girlfriend Sylvie (Elle Fanning, playing Dylan's real-life partner Suze Rotolo), what remains is a moody, mumbling, and largely unpleasant artist grappling with the burden of celebrity. That said, the movie's faithful recreation of Greenwich Village and the New York folk scene of the early 1960s, its supporting performances — especially Norton's Seeger and Barbaro's Baez, and the addictive nature of the soundtrack not only make this a tribute to Dylan's enduring influence, both as an artist and as a cultural icon, but a beautifully rendered period piece.
